{"id":21424,"date":"2015-06-03T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21424"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:38:15","slug":"veal-calves-little-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/veal-calves-little-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Veal calves little babies this one called &#8220;benny&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was only thirty seconds<br \/>\nThe video I saw<br \/>\nNothing in the scheme of things<br \/>\nSo horrid to see more<br \/>\nCalves that little babies<br \/>\nThey have just been born<br \/>\nTiny innocent beings<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s their brand new dawn<\/p>\n<p>Their mother she is with them<br \/>\nIn a pool of blood<br \/>\nTheir first breath<br \/>\nOn the planet<br \/>\nAfter the dull thud<br \/>\nAll the smells of living<br \/>\nBurning in their hearts<br \/>\nA man is there to assist it seems<br \/>\nOne of those real upstarts<\/p>\n<p>The babies licked and jostled<br \/>\nBy the moth this is care<br \/>\nAnd live for her wee offering<br \/>\nOf course she needs to share<br \/>\nBut the upstart has another idea<br \/>\nWhisk the calf away<br \/>\n39 seconds of freedom<br \/>\nAnd now the soul must pay<\/p>\n<p>That is the meat industry<br \/>\nAs for family care<br \/>\nThey do have even a thought<br \/>\nFor anybody there<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s money it&#8217;s economics<br \/>\nSo the calf is dragged away<br \/>\nWith the mother following crying<br \/>\nYou can hear her right away<\/p>\n<p>4 days later lots of babies crying<br \/>\nFor their mums<br \/>\nBeing bashed about a lot<br \/>\nAll the little chums together<br \/>\nIn a fenced off pen<br \/>\nThrown about and injured<br \/>\nThere must be at least ten<br \/>\nall taken from their mothers<br \/>\nCrying we can hear<br \/>\nTheir lowing loops of anguish<br \/>\nBreaking through the air<\/p>\n<p>At 4 months they are ready<br \/>\nStanding on the floor<br \/>\nThe upstart with his stun gun<br \/>\nIs ready in the raw<br \/>\nNo respect for life it seems<br \/>\nNo honour to regard<br \/>\nIrreverent and aweless<br \/>\nAnd really very hard<\/p>\n<p>Neglect has been the keyword<br \/>\nSince they arrived In town<br \/>\nReally it&#8217;s an outrage<br \/>\nWhat is going down<br \/>\nThey are off to slaughter<br \/>\nStill babies in way<br \/>\nHumans love the Vella escalopes<br \/>\nSo the restaurants say<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s little baby cow flesh<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s been fed on milky slop<br \/>\nAnd hooked up in a tight iron crate<br \/>\nNow it faces the shop<br \/>\nIt cannot walk too easily<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how it has to be<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s flesh has to be milky white<br \/>\nAnd tender naturally<\/p>\n<p>What is natural about torture<br \/>\nWhat is natural about pain<br \/>\nWhy the hell do human put them through<br \/>\nThis malevolence again<br \/>\nWhy are we bloody hurtful<br \/>\nWhy do we malign<br \/>\nA considerate little baby<br \/>\nSo harmless by design<\/p>\n<p>We are so bloody mindless<br \/>\nSo vicious and hostile<br \/>\nPersecuting babies<br \/>\nJust here for a while<br \/>\nAnd now they face the terror<br \/>\nOf the slaughterhouse so we<br \/>\nCan chomp upon their fleshy loins<br \/>\nAnd smile occasionally<\/p>\n<p>Pulled about and thrown so hard<br \/>\nInto a lorry rack<br \/>\nThese are little babies<br \/>\nDid you hear that whack?<br \/>\nNo sympathy to speak of<br \/>\nJust anger and despair<br \/>\nNo sense of obligation<br \/>\nJust brutes who do not care<\/p>\n<p>The animals are tossed aside and heaped up on a rack<br \/>\nInjured sobbing choking<br \/>\nNow there is no way back<br \/>\nThe labourers are unrepentant<br \/>\nUnshriven and unabashed<br \/>\nThey cut the babies throats wide open<br \/>\nAnd then they just bashed<br \/>\nThem down upon the bloody floor<br \/>\nNo life from them no more<br \/>\nLittle babies lives are list<br \/>\nTo bloody pain and gore<\/p>\n<p>They treat them just like<br \/>\nSacks of shit<br \/>\nNo care no thought for how<br \/>\nThey must be feeling full of fright<br \/>\nThey are baby cow<br \/>\nHurting their blood spurting<br \/>\nTheir agony they know<br \/>\nDeath is coming quickly<br \/>\nAnd they now are the show<\/p>\n<p>Along the creaking gantry<br \/>\nLegs chopped off one by one<br \/>\nHead off tail off split into<br \/>\nNow the work is done<br \/>\nSoon they will be cut and packaged<br \/>\nSitting in some store<br \/>\nBeing eaten by some trout less carnivore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only thirty seconds The video I saw Nothing in the scheme of things So horrid to see more Calves that little babies They have just been born Tiny innocent beings It&#8217;s their brand new dawn Their mother she &hellip; 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